Purpose/Goal: A jargon-free introduction to how the five major renewable energy sources — solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass — work, and how they stack up against fossil fuels in cost, emissions, and reliability.

Role: Project Lead, Lead Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Mindsmith (AI-assisted authoring), Descript, PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Clickable hot-button hotspots and tabbed interactions to reveal on-demand detail without overwhelming the screen

• Step-by-step process diagrams illustrating how each energy source converts to electricity, "source to socket"

• Image carousel and accordion interactions to chunk multi-part concepts

• Interactive image comparison slider contrasting onshore vs. offshore wind turbine setups

• Data visualizations (bar charts and comparison tables) translating technical figures — CO₂ emissions, levelized cost of energy — into accessible, at-a-glance takeaways

• Embedded learning objectives framing each lesson's key takeaway

• Custom AI-generated imagery tailored to each energy source

Client: Brookings Institution

Purpose/Goal: Equip global education practitioners and organizations with the frameworks and tools to move promising innovations from pilot to sustained, systems-level impact — covering scaling goals, pathways, partnerships, research/evidence use, and financing.

Role: Project Lead, Lead Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Rise 360, Descript, PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Custom interaction blocks and diagrams

• Clickable custom on-screen visuals

• Image carousel, accordion, and flip card interactions to chunk multi-part concepts

• Embedded videos with full transcripts, featuring subject-matter experts and practitioner interviews

• Real-world mini case studies illustrating successes and pitfalls across global education contexts

• Scenario-based reflection activities and short-answer prompts embedded throughout 

• Scalability self-assessment tool and glossary of key scaling terms for ongoing reference

• Full course translation and localization into French and Spanish, including culturally-adapted terminology (e.g., nuanced translations of "scaling" itself)

Client: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Purpose/Goal: Provide and streamline the most up-to-date information and public-facing resources regarding global health security architecture, programming, and interagency coordination at the national and global levels for global health staff and other funding and hiring mechanisms whose work intersects with global health security, biodefense strategy, and/or international infectious disease response.

Role: Project Lead, Lead Instructional Designer and eLearning Developer, Animator

Tools: Storyline 360, Adobe Creative Suite, ElevenLabs AI, Adobe Firefly Image AI

Challenges/Barriers: During the design of this project, we worked closely with SMEs to pare down all unnecessary and extraneous information. After identifying what was most critical to the course, we decided to break up the content into three courses-basic, intermediate, and advanced, not only to scaffold and chunk the content, but to also tailor each course to its intended audience. This was the first of the three, covering basic global health security, with the second and third courses diving deeper into the nuances of global health security programming. 

Evaluation: Learner reaction survey (option, end-of-course), course assessment, learner analytics through LMS, post-mortem with SMEs and follow-up reporting/course revision 

Highlights: 

• Custom eLearning interface; Interactive markers to engage with on-screen graphics

• Custom images, diagrams and AI images created/edited in Adobe CC

• Accordion, tabbed, and custom interactions to explore additional information

• Customized drag-and-drop sorting and scenario-based knowledge check questions 

• Triggers and variables to direct the learner to the assessment after successful completion of the modules and knowledge check questions

• AI voice narration, fully animated on-screen course narrator, custom learner avatar 

Client: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Purpose/Goal: Provide in depth procedural information and protocols to USAID missions-based staff with emphasis on the following areas: identifying local capabilities for outbreak response, leveraging headquarters-based support in different forms, and following the operational framework for USAID response to infectious disease outbreaks.

Role: Co-Instructional Designer, eLearning Developer, Animator

Tools: Storyline 360, Adobe Creative Suite, ElevenLabs AI, WellSaid labs, Adobe Firefly Image AI

Challenges/Barriers: During the design of this project, we worked closely with SMEs to ascertain and outline all necessary technical information that would inform a fully custom-animated, story-driven eLearning course. As a design team, it became immediately clear to us that traditional eLearning course formats would not do the content justice; nor would we achieve a meaningful learning experience that was so critically needed for this training topic if we did not produce something truly unique, attention-sustaining, and legitimately impactful in helping the USAID workforce abroad response to infectious disease outbreaks. Despite the tremendous undertaking of creating a fully-animated and plot-driven eLearning course, our development team worked strategically to divide the character rigging, custom animations, on-screen graphics and special effect tasks and to leverage a variety of character animation, video production/editing, and custom animation development tools.

Evaluation: Learner reaction survey (option, end-of-course), course assessment, learner analytics through LMS, post-mortem with SMEs and follow-up reporting/course revision 

Highlights: 

• Fully animated, story-driven eLearning course with custom animated characters

• Custom videos, motion graphics, diagrams and AI images created/edited in Adobe CC

• Real-world examples of outbreak response highlighted throughout the story, underscoring the relevance and motivation for the training content as well as context-specific considerations

• Customized scenario-based knowledge check questions for immediate application of content

• Triggers and variables to direct the learner to the assessment after successful completion of the modules and knowledge check questions

• Individual voice actor/voice recordings for each character

Client: EPIC Soccer Club

Purpose/Goal: Reduce incidences of soccer coaching decisions that are inconsistent and/or misaligned with the club coaching code of conduct, policies/procedures, and coaching expectations by 90%.

Role: Instructional Designer, eLearning Developer & Project Manager

Tools: Storyline 360 & PowerPoint

Challenges/Barriers: Under ideal circumstances, the training content involved in this project would be broken into three separate modules of 15-20 minutes each. However, learner time constraints revealed during the needs analysis for the client led to the development of a single eLearning course with pared down, methodically-chunked information and substantial opportunities for practice. 

Evaluation: Learner reaction survey, coaching directors questionnaire, data analysis of compliance incidences after the completion of soccer season in Fall 2023.

Highlights: 

• Interactive markers to engage with on-screen graphics

• Custom diagrams and images created/edited in PowerPoint

• Accordion and tabbed interactions to explore additional information

• Customized drag-and-drop sorting and scenario-based knowledge check questions 

• Triggers and variables to direct the learner to the assessment after successful completion of the practice activities and knowledge check questions

• Text-to-speech narration and closed captions

Purpose: Interest and participation in outdoor activities has increased dramatically in the last decade. I created this course as a resource for novice hikers, hunters, and outdoorsmen who want to learn about reading topographic maps, which are essential for navigation in the backcountry. 

Role: Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Rise 360 & PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Custom on-screen images with clickable markers

• Flip card and drag-and-drop interactions

• Matching and multiple choice knowledge checks

• Scenario-based end-of-course challenge (in place of a formal, end-of-course assessment)

Client: Wild and Wonderful Garden LLC

Purpose: Rising food costs and product shortages have encouraged many to grow their own vegetables. This course takes learners through the process of planning a personal kitchen garden, from selecting an ideal location to choosing crops to grow. 

Role: Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

Tools: Rise 360, Camtasia & PowerPoint

Highlights: 

• Clickable custom on-screen images 

• Image carousel and flip card interactions

• Embedded video and screencast tutorials

• Lesson knowledge checks and summative course assessment